New 4GB Flash Drive Packs Quite a Punch

PCPro has a neat little tidbit about a new flash drive from Corsair. This little drive, only half the size of a lighter, packs a punch with 4GB of data storage and a very reasonable price tag (approx $32 USD). "When a Corsair rep turned up at Dennis Towers yesterday he told us he'd brought something pretty special to show off. We were therefore distinctly underwhelmed when he said it was ... a flash drive. But this flash drive needs seeing to be believed. It's been passed all round the office, where it's invariably been greeted with ooohs and aaaahs of grinning appreciation."

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[Slashdot Suxxors]

A tiny flash drive? Honestly?

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[Anonymous Coward]

Can I be the first to say....So what?

Nice ad

[DurendalMac]

So, does Slashdot get paid for this kind of advertisement?

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[adonoman]

If this were 32 or 64 GB, then I'd be impressed, but come on - we already have 8GB Micro SD cards.

Re:Nice ad

[CogDissident]

Lots of slashvertisements lately. Anyone know a good news site that covers the same geek range, but hasn't sold out this much?

um.

[Vanigard_Man]

"looks down at his lighter-sized, $35 8 gig flash drive* and this is big because?

It's not that small or that big...

[argent]

You can get higher capacity drives than that in more compact packages. It's a little cheaper than the 4G version of this drive [sandisk.com] but the Sandisk product's got it beat to hell for coolness.

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[chaosmind]

Yeah, this is a truly weak excuse for a story.

I just bought an 8 Gig drive for $39 USD, so the price isn't amazing. No MP3 player or slot for an SD card, nothing really technologically innovative...

We need an actual "products review" section (products.slashdot.org) in order to filter out such stories when you're not in a shopping mood.

I'm not angry like some people about this...

[Facegarden]

... but it certainly is rediculous... OMG a small flash drive! Umm.. Smaller flash drives of the same or larger capacity already exist... Why the hell is that on here? People complain about things being not news all the time if they're not interesting enough, but this literally is not news for nerds, in the sense that we are all already aware that small flash drives exist, it is not terribly cheap by comparison to other small flash drives, and it has no seemingly special features. It is also not "stuff that matters". I don't complain about things not being news normally (or maybe ever on this site?) but this is just plain ridiculous, please never, ever, post things like this, it dilutes the value of the other articles on your site. -Taylor

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[Pulzar]

Very insightful -- not. I like this story, for one. I don't believe Taco selling out.

What do you like about it? It's not a particularly interesting article, and the product being showed off is not particularly advanced, cool, or really, not much of anything compared to other similar products. I mean, you can get 8GB flash drives that are smaller than that, and the size and capacity are the only thing going for this product.

Really, either the editor doesn't know what's top of the line these days, or Slashdot's getting paid to insert product advertisements as stories. Not being much of a conspiracy theorist myself, I believe it's the former. Nevertheless, it still makes it a bad "story" to post.

(yawn) Call me in 2006

[WuphonsReach]

4GB flash drives (of any size) are OLD. The current "big" sizes are 8GB.

What I want is a Corsair Cruzer Titanium in a 16GB or 32GB size.

(I like my little 2GB Cruzer Titanium. It hangs off my keychain and is surviving very well on a day-to-day basis.)